Christine McPherson, nam-ı diğer “Uğur Böceği” (Saoirse Ronan), son derece sevecen, dik kafalı ve iradeli annesi gibi olmamak için ne kadar uğraşsa da aynı onun gibidir. Uğur Böceği’nin hemşire olan annesi (Laurie Metcalf), eşinin işini kaybetmesinden sonra ailesini ayakta tutmak için yorulmak bilmeden çalışmaktadır. Sacramento, California’da 2002 yılında, hızla değişen Amerikan ekonomisinin ortasında geçen Uğur Böceği, bizi şekillendiren ilişkilere, tanımlayan inançlara ve yuva adını verdiğimiz yerin benzersiz güzelliğine etkileyici bir bakış açısı sunuyor.
Rahibeler, kapanmak uzere olan kilise cemaatine ait okullarindaki bir grup ogrenciye muzik ogretmek icin manastira geri donmesine ikna etme amaciyla Dolores'in şovunu izlemeye giderler. Koro, eyalet sampiyonasi finaline kalmasina ragmen, korunun en yetenekli sarkicisinin sarki soylemesi annesi tarafindan yasaklanmistir. Bir grup stereotip rahip, onlari durdurmaya calisir.
Christopher Reeve bu filmde sadece 4. kez bir süper kahramanın pelerininin giymiyor... Ayrıca filmin kışkırtıcı konusunun gelişmesine de yardımcı oluyor: nükleer silahsızlanma. Nükleer silah satıcıları için dünyayı daha güvenli bir hale getirmek isteyen Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) Çelik Adam'a meydan okumak için yeni bir şey yaratır: radyasyonla şarj edilmiş Nukler Adam (Mark Pillow). Superman'in Özgürlük Anıtını kurtardığı, Etna yanardağındaki patlamayı engellediği ve zarar gören büyük Çin Seddi'ni yeniden inşa ettiği bu inanılmaz macerada iki düşmanın amansız mücadelesine de tanık olacaksınız. Heyecan arayışınız bu filmle sona erecek.
Julia Walton’ın yazdığı romandan uyarlanan Words on Bathroom Walls, paranoid şizofreni hastalığından muzdarip, halüsinasyonlar gören Adam (Charlie Plummer) adında bir lise öğrencisine odaklanıyor. Sosyal hayatta zorluklar çeken Adam, hastalığını yaşıtlarından saklamayı vaat eden deneysel bir ilaç kullanmaya başlıyor.
Chicago’ya yeni taşınan ve tam anlamıyla bir dans tutkunu olan Janey’nin kendisi ile bu tutkusunu paylaşan Lynne ile tanışmasını konu ediyor. İkili yerel bir televizyon kanalında yayınlanacak olan dans yarışmasına katılmak için kollarını sıvar. Ancak önlerinde hayli zor bir engel vardır: Janey’in babası.
Bir grup katolik okul öğrencisi, bulundukları okulun sıkıcı kurallarına karşı gelip, dini simgelerle kendilerini yönlendiren müdür ve öğretmenlere karşı gelirler.
The unexpected and gruesome death of a student threatens the existence of an old Catholic school for girls. Pat Consolacion, the school guidance counselor, involves herself with the students in the hopes of helping them cope, and at the same time uncover the mysteries of the student’s death. Most students suspect of the strict and borderline abusive Mother Alice, who also threatened Pat’s tenure in the school because of her continuous meddling with the case. But Pat’s unusual talents lead her to knowing Eri, a former student who's been watching the whole school for years. Piece by piece, Pat uncovers the secret of the school and the monster that it nurtured for the past century.
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Jerry, a new student at an elite Catholic prep school, must face the hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When teacher Brother Leon pushes the students to sell chocolates for a fundraiser, the head of the Vigils, Archie, gets Jerry to reject selling for 10 days. However, Jerry decides to keep up the refusal past the original time frame, which pits him against the Vigils and the school staff.
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.
70'li yıllarda bir katolik okuluna geçen kadın koçun öyküsü... Sadece kızların okuduğu bir katolik okuluna gelen bir kadın koç, üniforması bile olmayan takımı büyük şampiyonaya hazırlamaya başlar.
Set in an academy for daughters of the rich and powerful, this murder mystery involves six girls with a dark secret. Literature club chairman Itsumi Shiraishi, has fallen to her death from the school roof. Rumours soon circulate that one of the members of the literature club is the culprit. New chairman and friend of the victim, Sayuri Sumikawa, holds a meeting and asks each member to recount their whereabouts at the time of Itsumi’s death. Who is telling a lie and what really happened to Itsumi?
This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy story that becomes increasingly poignant as the minutes tick by. It's the fictional tale of a wayward 9th grader, Ralph (Adam Butcher), who is secretly living on his own while his widowed, hospitalized mother remains immersed in a coma. Frequently in trouble with Father Fitzpatrick (Gordon Pinsent), the principal of his all-boys, Catholic school, Ralph is considered something of a joke among peers until he decides to pull off a miracle that could save his mother, i.e., winning the Boston Marathon. Coached by a younger priest and former runner, Father Hibbert (Campbell Scott), whose cynicism has been lifted by the boy's pure hope, Ralph applies himself to his unlikely mission, fending off naysayers and getting help along a very challenging path from sundry allies and friends.
Robert Gordon, a sheltered 18-year-old youth reared in a Catholic school, believes he has a vocation for the priesthood. He is taken to live with his father in his palatial Florida home. There he falls in love with his step-sister, Patricia Morrow, ten years his senior. He runs away and joins the R.A.F. Shot down in battle, he is rescued and taken to a monastery where he renounces the world to study for the priesthood.
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
Felix Funicello is a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the famous Mouseketeer and teen movie queen. But grammar and arithmetic move to the back burner this holiday season with the sudden arrivals of substitute teacher Madame Frechette and feisty Russian student Zhenya Kabakova. While Felix learns the meaning of French kissing, cultural misunderstanding, and tableaux vivants, Wishin' and Hopin' barrels toward one outrageous Christmas!
Marc Hall, a young man living in Quebec, registers his prom date as per his Catholic school's rules. He is denied his request, because his prom date is a boy. Marc Hall is an openly gay teenager in a very conservative Catholic school. This film documents his struggles (legal, emotional, ethical and personal) to be himself and to live his life the way he deems best. With the help of friends, family and supporters, "Cinderfella" makes it to the ball, With his Prince Charming.
Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.